Lex Luthor: Bye bye California. Hello new west coast. My west coast...... Costa Del Lex. Luthorville. Marina del Lex. Otisburg - “Otisburg”?
Posted on 02/04/2008 4:20:52 AM PST by Kaslin
The Berkeley California City Council has stated that the U.S. Marines recruiting center is not welcome in the city “due to their discriminatory policy against gays and lesbians in the military”. Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates, said, "I believe in the Code Pink cause. The Marines don't belong here, they shouldn't have come here, and they should leave."
This issue was on the agenda for the Berkeley’s City Council meeting of January 29, 2008 and was accompanied by a unanimously adopted report by Berkeley’s Peace and Justice Commission that included the following “Whereas’s” (without the civil code references):
1. WHEREAS, the Peace & Justice Commission advises the City Council on all matters relating to the City of Berkeley’s role in issues of peace and social justice and;
2. WHEREAS, the United States has a history of launching illegal, immoral and unprovoked wars of aggression and the Bush Administration launched the most recent of those wars in Iraq and is threatening the possibility of war in Iran and;
3. WHEREAS, the United States armed forces, including the Marine Corps, explicitly refuse to hire openly non-heterosexual individuals, and will discharge an individual in their employ “who engages in, attempts to engage in, has a propensity to engage in, or intends to engage in homosexual acts” and
4. WHEREAS, “Discrimination on the Basis of Sexual Orientation,” provides that “It shall be an unlawful employment practice for an employer to fail or refuse to hire, or to discharge any individual, or otherwise to discriminate against any individual with respect to compensation, terms, conditions or privileges of employment on the basis of such individual’s sexual orientation”, and applies the same standard to employment agencies and job-training programs; and
5. WHEREAS, these wars have produced catastrophic loss of human life, both civilian and military, as well as physically maiming and deforming and psychologically destroying countless numbers of civilians and military personnel; and
6. WHEREAS, the people of the City of Berkeley have long voiced their stand for peace and against unnecessary wars; and support people following their consciences to do what is morally and ethically right to resist illegitimate authority; and Marine Recruiting Office in Berkeley and
7. WHEREAS, the United States Marine Corps is being used as one of the means of perpetrating and prolonging illegal, unconstitutional and unnecessary wars of the United States; and
8. WHEREAS, military recruiters are sales people known to lie to and seduce minors and young adults into contracting themselves into military service with false promises regarding jobs, job training, education and other benefits; and
9. WHEREAS, many enlisted persons never see the benefits they are promised and find out they are not eligible for the educational benefits due to loopholes and they did not receive the training promised or it did not qualify them for jobs outside the military; and
10. WHEREAS, the people of Berkeley should want the Marine Corps present near Berkeley High School, Berkeley City College, and University of California no more than they would want other violent influences downtown.
And the report concludes with two resolutions:
1. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Council of the City of Berkeley direct the City Manager to send letters to the Marine Corps Recruiting Station at 64 Shattuck Avenue and to General James T. Conway, Commandant of the United States Marine Corps, advising them that the Marine recruiting office is not welcome in our city, and if recruiters choose to stay, they do so as uninvited and unwelcome intruders.
2. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Council of the City of Berkeley encourage all people to avoid cooperation with the Marine Corps recruiting station, and applaud residents and organizations such as Code Pink, that may volunteer to impede, passively or actively, by nonviolent means, the work of any military recruiting office located in the City of Berkeley.
The above speaks volumes on its own; commentary thereon adds very little to the discussion.
This is both an event and an issue that should be addressed by candidates for President of the United States. Answers would help establish clarity with respect to their positions regarding our military in general, homeland security and actions of local government in harming the ability of the United States to recruit members to our armed forces.
My question for the next Presidential debate would be:
1. Please, in your answer, do not discuss free speech. Everyone understands the right of the Berkeley City Council and any American to express their views:
One word answer: Do you condemn or support the actions of the Berkeley City Council and their Mayor, Tom Bates?
2. What actions, if any, would you support in response to the actions of the Berkeley City Council?
My answers:
1. Condemn
2. Within the City Council Chambers in public session, the Berkeley City Council represents the views of the people of the City of Berkeley. If the people of Berkeley do not want the Marines to recruit in their city, the Federal government should be interested only in performing the minimum activities required by Federal law in the City of Berkeley. Therefore, I recommend the following:
? Close any Federal office operating in the City of Berkeley where the services can be performed in another city (regardless of any inconvenience to the citizens of Berkeley).
So fine, if the Berkeley City Council wants to decide who can join the military, as well as why and where it should fight, the Federal government should decide where it wants to do business. In making this decision, the Federal government should withdraw its non-essential operations from Berkeley, California and move them elsewhere.
Cede Berkley to Mexico.
Lex Luthor: Bye bye California. Hello new west coast. My west coast...... Costa Del Lex. Luthorville. Marina del Lex. Otisburg - “Otisburg”?
I cannot imagine all that much recruitment in Berkeley or the surrounding communities. Seems a waste to even have a recruitment office in that area.
The Mayor should be sued and sentenced
And yet on another board I post on there are people DEFENDING these clowns. Something about them being “lying recruiters” and not Marines. Ya gotta love the left.
There’s also a law that calls for the hanging of convicted traitors and seditionists. Let’s enforce that.
You know, maybe the other side is right when they say that some people just do not want to live in freedom under a western-style democracy, and that we should not force our way of life on them.
Pull out of Berkeley now, it’s a quagmire!
So if gays were allowed then I guess they would
have no issues with the military.
They are upset about the “Dont ask, dont tell policy”
Gays and lesbians dont want acceptance, they want special treatment and want to flaunt theif lifestyle.”
I wrote my Senators and Congressman and asked them to revoke all federal funding for these anti-American pro terrorist whores in Berkeley, California.
If Mayor Tom Bates is a retired Army officer, as he says his is, he probably is an inactive reservist, still holding a commission.
In which case he is still sworn under oath to protect and defend the interests of the United States Constitution.
“...all enemies, foreign and domestic”
Of which he is one.
se·di·tion –noun
1. incitement of discontent or rebellion against a government.
2. any action, esp. in speech or writing, promoting such discontent or rebellion.
3. Archaic. rebellious disorder.
“I (insert name), having been appointed a (insert rank) in the U.S. Army under the conditions indicated in this document, do accept such appointment and do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter, so help me God.”
BTTT!
This is a similar tactic to what law schools used against military recruiting prior to the Solomon Amendment. They basically said that no entity can recruit unless it signs a non-discrimination paper. The military, due to its rules, could not sign it, therefore it was banned from recruiting. Then, the Solomon Amendment was passed which basically stripped federal money away if schools did not allow recruiting. The application of the Solomon Amendment was upheld by the federal Supreme Court in FAIR v. Rumsfeld.
The key argument is that the Supreme Court has upheld the military’s policies and the Constitution gives the federal government exclusive power over the military. Who is the City of Berkeley to regulate the military or to pass on its policies or to second guess the federal supreme court.
The City of Berkeley wants to undermine the Constitution’s supremacy clause which was reaffirmed by the Civil War and the Civil Rights movement.
Thanks very much for the information, Wyatt K.
Notice how they treat it like a simple hiring/employment issue? Like they’re thinking the military is exactly like any other government agency or small business.
Yup. And even better is that the armed services dont
discriminate against them. Somehow I doubt that even
if the marines allowed gays. I still dont
think code pink would be happy anyway.
Communists Are Protesting Marines at Berkeley With Code Pink
David Horowitz's Discover the Networks, Feb. 4, 2008
Berkeley Attacks U.S. Marines - MAF Responds!
Move America Forward, Feb. 4, 2008
Complete The Mission in Bagdad - Withdraw From Berkeley, California
Townhall.com, Feb. 4, 2008
**UNREPORTED** FACT ABOUT BERKELEY MARINE ISSUE (CODE PINK)
Berkeley Agenda Item 4b.14, posted Feb. 4, 2008
Code Pink Has Its Pink Panties in a Twist over Berkeley Boycott
MelanieMorgan.com, Feb. 3, 2008
CodePink Physically Assaults People Visiting Marines, Berkeley Police Allow It
bayareanewsgroup.com, Feb. 2, 2008
Barbara Boxer Condemns Sen. DeMint Instead Of Troop Haters In Berkeley
Marooned in Marin weblog, Feb. 2, 2008
MELANIE MORGAN: ARE YOU READY TO RUMBLE? (Berkeley Mayor - Free Speech Thief)
MelanieMorgan.com, Feb. 2, 2008
Berkeley, California Throws Out Marines, DeMint to Revoke City's Fed. Funding
Right Wing News, Feb. 2, 2008
BERKELEY Facing off over Marine Corps
San Francisco Chronicle, Feb. 2, 2008
U.S. Senator Wants to Revoke Funding From City of Berkeley, Calif., for Vote to Boot Marines
Fox News, Feb. 1, 2008
Talk Back to Berkeley: Sign the Petition
Michelle Malkin, Feb. 1, 2008
Conservatives target Berkeley as protesters block Marines' door
San Francisco Chronicle, Feb. 1, 2008
Berkeley mayor offers to help Marines leave
Contra Costa Times, Feb. 1, 2008
Marines say they will stay in Berkeley
Contra Costa Times, Feb. 1, 2008
Group protests Marine recruiters in Berkeley
San Francisco Chronicle Feb. 1, 2008
Berkeley council tells Marines to leave
Contra Costa Times, Jan. 30, 2008
Berkeley Council Tells Marines to Leave (Calls Marines "Intruders")
Contra Costa Times, Jan. 30, 2008
Initiative Drive Begun to Restrict Military Recruiting
Berkeley Daily Planet, Jan. 25, 2008
Marine Recruiters 'Traitors,' Say Code Pink Protesters
CNSNews, Oct. 18, 2007
Commentary: An Open Letter to Code Pink [Marine Recruiter Blasts Aging Hippie Traitors]
Berkeley Daily Planet, Oct. 2, 2007
Click here to sign MAF petition drive against Berkeley City Council's action
Way to be, Hank. Great minds think alike.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1963261/posts?page=23#23
The petition
We, the undersigned condemn the Berkeley City Council’s treasonous attack on US Marine Recruiters stationed in their city. We ask that Congress cut off funds from any and all municipal entity within the confines of the city of Berkeley, California, until such time as the city council withdraws it’s action.
The City Council has voted to tell the Marines their downtown recruiting station is not welcome and “if recruiters choose to stay, they do so as uninvited and unwelcome guests.”
The measure passed last week by a vote of 8-1.
The council also voted to explore enforcing a city anti-discrimination law, focusing on the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy.
In a separate item, the council voted, also 8-1, to give the Marxist protest group Code Pink a parking space in front of the recruiting office once a week for six months and a free sound permit for protesting once a week.
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/cutoffberkeleynow
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